Editors Note – The Reporter Ethiopia

Editor’s Note

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 10:51:52 +0000

An article published in The Reporter last week with the title ‘Tigray Admin introduces legislation paving way for federal intervention’ has elicited a strong response from senior officials of the Tigray Interim Administration (TIA), who deny the legislation referred to in the article exists and are engaging in a campaign to distort the facts.

The legislation in question is a regulation signed and ratified by TIA President Getachew Reda two weeks ago, with provisions that reinforce and empower councils and the TIA executive organ.

The legislation’ preamble states the regulation was deemed necessary to ensure security, law and order in Tigray and to enable the TIA to execute its mandates.

The regulation refers to articles 14 and 15 of Federal Proclamation 359/1995 (2003 G.C.), dubbed the ‘System for the Intervention of the Federal Government in the Regions Proclamation.’

Article 14/3/B empowers the TIA “To speedily facilitate conditions for the regional government to resume its office by restoring the constitutional order.”

Article 14 also lists measures that can be taken by the federal government in order to rein in a situation that endangers the constitutional order in a particular regional state.

Article 15/2/C empowers the provisional government to “ensure the enforcement of law and order.”

We have attached the regulation in question to clear up any confusion. We invite our esteemed readers to also take a look at Proclamation 359/1995, in the links provided below.

The Reporter maintains its accuracy and credibility by upholding its foundational principles of journalism. Mistakes can happen during content processing, and The Reporter has always taken the appropriate measures to acknowledge, correct and clarify mistakes if and when they do happen.

But we also consider it our duty to stand by our publications in the face of clear attempts to distort facts and spread misinformation.

Read: TIA Regulation 2017 And Proclamation 359/1995

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Correction for the story headlined “Abrehot Library thwarts book theft scheme, saves 24 mln birr” published on October 7, 2023

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 08:39:23 +0000

In our story headlined “Abrehot Library thwarts book theft scheme, saves 24 mln birr” and published on October 7, 2023, we have mistakenly stated Abrehot Library averted book theft perpetrated using fraudulent cataloguing entries. However, the fact is that the Library management saved 24 million birr that could have been spent on Koha library cataloguing software, which is expensive. The Abrehot management saved the amount by developing in-house cataloguing software dubbed Dagu, which is also approved by Information Network Security Administration (INSA). The fourteen individuals apprehended while stealing books and now in the court process are also external library users and not Abrehot’s staff. We apologize to the library and our readers for any inconvenience and consequences the mistakes might have caused.

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In our interview with Mesfin Tasew, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines Group, on October 29, 2022

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 04:00:00 +0000

In our interview with Mesfin Tasew, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines Group, on October 29, 2022, we made transcribing mistakes. We would therefore want to make the following corrections.

Ethiopian Airlines’ share in ASKY Airlines is 26 percent, not 49 percent
The Single Africa Air Transport Market is abbreviated as SAATM, not SATM
In the interview, the Group CEO spoke of authorized capital, not paid-up capital
The new flight Ethiopian Airlines started in June is Chennai, India (not China)
Recently the airline started flight to Amman, Jordan (not Oman)
There is no construction of a runway going on currently
Of the airplanes the airline has on order, 2 are B787 airplanes (in your paper you said “All three are Boeing 7A7”)

We truly regret the error and any inconvenience it may have caused for both our readers and Ethiopian Airlines Group.

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China sanctions seven Ethiopian exporters

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:02:10 +0000

Retraction Letter

In our story headlined “China Sanctions Seven Ethiopian Exporters,” it came to our attention that we have made an erroneous conclusion. The companies stated in the story are neither sanctioned nor faced any rejection by custom authorities in China. We hereby retract the story and we would like to apologise for any inconvenience this has caused to our readers and entities mentioned in the story.

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